Top 10 Metal Songs with the Boldest Experimental Ideas
Needless to say the songs must be good - they may sound unusual but good. In other words, bold experiments that worked.I ranked the songs by degree of "boldness".
A song of 2014 that combines flamenco and heavy metal, and it works for me. I think they created a new metal subgenre (flamenco metal) but as far as I know they are still the only band that plays it.
If interested, check out the list Top 10 Flametal Songs
Great combo of flamenco and meta.
There are parts on violin in an extreme metal song. This song is so unique that polarized the metal community:
1) on the one hand, even non-metal musicians were impressed and the song was included in a teaching curriculum to be studied for its composition (Sydney Conservatorium of Music)
2) on the other, some narrow-minded metal elitists said that Ne Obliviscaris music is great but the band must get rid of the violinist.
A pretty long song without a chorus (length - 7:08). Later, many metal songs were composed in that manner (Holy Wars) but in 1982 it was unusual. Before that, a notable song without a chorus was Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen. Obviously Iron Maiden learned from the best.
But Hallowed Be Thy Name wasn't Maiden's first song without a chorus - Phantom of the Opera doesn't have a chorus either.
Even though this song has no chorus, it's one of the best songs I've listened to!
Ritchie Blackmore used Arabic scales for a heavy song and it worked:
a half-Turkish scale and a Phrygian dominant scale for the solo (common in Arabic and Egyptian music; the song is about Egypt so it makes sense).
It has over 128 time/meter signature changes within 6:13 minutes.
It starts with a guitar solo (a song of 1984).
Latin jazz in a metal song (play the sample)
They used an Austrian waltz as an intro to a speed metal song - a pretty fast, aggressive and heavy song. The intro is a barrel organ version of Johann Strauss II's waltz The Blue Danube.
There's a bridge instead of a guitar solo